Husband being deployed on due date...

Just need to vent and get any advice anyone has on getting myslef into labor. I HATE his job at the moment. We are both broken hearted. What an awful surprise. He was not supposed to be deploying but america has police the whole dam world so he leaves again. We have been threw this for years. It's our first child however and we were soooo excited to share the birth expierence together in a natural way at a birthing center. So now I'm 37 weeks and 4 days preg. and at my visit with my midwife we learned the baby hasn't dropped and I am not effaced or dialated at all. UHG!! I'm taking all these dam hippie herbs and drinking about a gallon of raspberry tea a day trying to get my body to move along and it's not doing anything. Although we had planned to do it natural we have asked to be induced, the midwives will not do it until 39 weeks and will only do it then if my cervix is effaced and the baby has dropped. I NEED to get this baby down and get things going. I'm all alone here with no family or friends and if I don't get the baby out beofre the due date I will be without my husband as well. Don't even know how I would get to and from the birthing center at that point. UHG!!! i'm so frustrated and scared to do this alone. Needing hugs right now and any advice or tricks to get my body to move along.

Have him get you in touch with the bases spouse group. I know the spouses on my base have a group called the spouses association. And these ladies help each other out with everything. This could be very helpful to you during the rest o your pregnancy and while he is deployed. They are a great support system. I wish you the best of luck!!! Keeping your family in my prayers. My husband deployed right after we had our first son.

I don't have anything new or different to add to the earlier advice ... but just want to let you know my heart goes out to you! I just can't imagine -- your post made me tear up. My thoughts and prayers are with you!

Dance dance revolution, sex, walking up and down stairs, each started my labor for past pregnancies. Was 37 weeks with my first when I played DDR trying to beat a record and contractions started. Wasn't trying to start labor was just having fun with my sister. With my second I had a couple orgasms and my contractions didn't stop after that as well. With my third I had sex and contractions started and I was a week past my edd so I walked up and down our stairs for 10 minutes then My water broke. Thought I peed myself and was horribly embarrassed but it kept leaking out and I had to use a pad to soak up the gushes. Lol. GL hope you find something that works!

Good luck and hopefully you will naturally induce labor before your DH leaves. If not, you could look into hiring a doula. They would be there with you throughout the birth and might even be willing to do the driving.

I'm sorry. Deployments suck and there's no changing dates on when they leave. My hubs is in the military too, but getting out soon. There's nothing easy about being a military wife. Definetly try the sex and bounce on a therapy ball to help bring baby down! Stay strong lady and I'm praying your hubby gets to be there for the birth of your baby!